Pioneering flight of ‘Robo Raven’ is major breakthrough for micro air vehicles

Top to
bottom: Robo Raven in flight. Robo Raven's wings flap completely
independent of each other. (L-R) Students Luke Roberts, John Gerdes, and
Ariel Perez-Rosado with Robo Raven. CREDITS: University of Maryland.

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In this age of advanced technology, how hard could it be to
develop a robotic bird that flies by flapping its wings? Despite the
apparent simplicity of the idea, it’s very hard--if you want the bird to
actually fly.
And how hard could it be to make a robot bird whose wings can
flap independently of each other? So hard that it’s been a breakthrough
that’s been out of reach for engineers--until now.
University of Maryland Professors S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR) and Hugh Bruck
(ME) and their students have developed and demonstrated a new robotic
bird, "Robo Raven," whose wings flap completely independently of each
other, and also can be programmed to perform any desired motion,
enabling the bird to perform aerobatic maneuvers. This is the first time
a robotic bird with these capabilities has been built and successfully
flown.
What makes building robotic birds so difficult? Not only is there
a long trial and error process, but every error leads to a crash, often
one that is fatal to the robot. This makes design iterations painfully
slow.
Gupta, a professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Institute
for Systems Research in the A. James Clark School of Engineering, has
been working on flapping-wing robotic birds for the better part of a
decade. He and his graduate students, along with Mechanical Engineering
Professor Hugh Bruck, first successfully demonstrated a flapping-wing
bird in 2007. This bird used one motor to flap both wings together in
simple motions. By 2010 the design had evolved over four successive
models. The final bird in the series was able to carry a tiny video
camera, could be launched from a ground robot, and could fly in winds up
to 10 mph—important breakthroughs for robotic micro air vehicles that
one day could be used for reconnaissance and surveillance. It even
fooled a local hawk, which attacked the robot in mid-flight on more than
one occasion.
But the limitation of simultaneous wing flapping restricted how
well the robotic bird could fly. So Gupta decided to tackle the much
thornier problem of creating a more versatile bird with wings that
operated independently, just like real birds. An unsuccessful attempt in
2008 led to the project being shelved for a while. Then, in 2012, Gupta
partnered with Bruck and their graduate students to try again.
"Our new robot, Robo Raven, is based on a fundamentally new
design concept," Gupta says. "It uses two programmable motors that can
be synchronized electronically to coordinate motion between the wings."
The challenge was that the two actuators required a bigger
battery and an on-board micro controller, which initially made Robo
Raven too heavy to fly.
"How did we get Robo Raven to 'diet' and lose weight?" Gupta
asks. "We used advanced manufacturing processes such as 3D printing and
laser cutting to create lightweight polymer parts."
But smarter manufacturing and lighter parts were only part of the solution.
So the team did three more things to get Robo Raven airborne.
They programmed motion profiles that ensured wings maintained optimal
velocity while flapping to achieve the right balance between lift and
thrust. They developed a way to measure aerodynamic forces generated
during the flapping cycle, enabling them to evaluate a range of wing
designs and quickly select the best one. Finally, the team performed
system-level optimization to make sure all components worked well
together and provided peak performance as an integrated system.
"We can now program any desired motion patterns for the wings,"
Gupta says. "This allows us to try new in-flight aerobatics—like diving
and rolling—that would have not been possible before, and brings us a
big step closer to faithfully reproducing the way real birds fly."

Gog and Magog
symbolize a worldwide Satanic confederacy that will attack
the New Covenant Israel before the end of time:

And when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the
sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed
the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that
deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where
the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day
and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20: 7-10).

The
battle of Gog and Magog (also called Armageddon), is the last war
or battle in the history of humanity....It takes place just before
the end of time at the Second Coming of Christ....It can also be called
the Last Great Inquisition!!

Armageddon
is also described symbolically in the Old Covenant Book of
Ezekiel, where an ancient invasion of the restored state of Israel
by a confederacy led by Gog and Magog is described:

And
the word of JEHOVAH came unto me, saying,Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, the land of Magog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And
say, Thus saith JEHOVAH Elohim; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back,
and put hoks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine
army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour,
even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords. (Ezekiel 38: 1-4).

This
battle against the armies of Antiochus did take place literally at the
time of the Maccabees but also applies to the New Covenant Israel at
the end of time.

Gog
and Magog are the "protectors" of the City of London!!

Two
giants named Gog and Magog are the "patron saints" or "protectors"
of the City of London....Every year, on the second Saturday in November,
they are paraded through the streets of the City.

The
City of London is about a square mile area of central London where the
Bank of England and the financial district are located....It is very
similar to Vatican City, which is a separate jurisdiction within the
city of Rome.

The
Man of Sin has two legs: One is firmly planted in Vatican City
and the other is firmly planted in the City of London!!

Vatican
City map.

Gog
and Magog are two GIANTS whose feet are firmly
planted in Vatican City and the City of London!!Gog
and Magog are guarding all the gold in the Bank of England
stolen from South Africa
and Fort Knox.

City of London map.

Daniel
the Prophet foresaw all of this 500 years before the Messiah was born:

Thus
he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
which shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole
earth, and shall tread it down, and break
it in pieces. (Daniel 7:23).

The
4th empire of Daniel's vision was the pagan Roman Empire, which
did devour the whole earth, and was divided into 2 halves at
the time of Emperor Constantine. The myth of the decline and fall of
the Roman Empire was started by British author Edward Gibbon.

Satanic giants
Gog and Magog.

Satanic
giants Gog and Magog—associated with Armageddon in the Bible—are
prepared for the annual Lord Mayor's Procession in the City
of London, on November 9, 2013.

These
giants are dressed as Roman soldiers and represent Constantinus
and Constantine.

The 2 Goliaths.

When
the Romans invaded Britannia in 43 AD, they found that the Druids were
their most implacable enemy. Druid and Roman hated each other with a
passion; but like King Herod and Pontius Pilate, they became fast friends
in order to destroy Christianity. Constantinus was a Roman tribune and
Constantine was his son by Druidess Princess Helena.

Gog and Magog on parade.

Modern
day Goliaths pulled through the streets of the City of London.

One
of those Goliaths is carrying a sword,
a spear and a shield
(I Samuel 17:45).

Giants on parade.

This
parade is one of the oldest in the world, going back to the 13th century,
but the giants Gog and Magog were not introduced until the reign of
King Henry V.

Lord
Mayor's coach.

Physical
giants have been replaced by financial and military giants
. . . but the final goal is still the same: war against
JEHOVAH.

"He
that sits in the heavens shall laugh:JEHOVAH shall have
them in derision"
(Psalm 2:4).

British battle tank on parade.

At
her coronation in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II had a scepter in one hand
and a cross crowned orb in the other. The symbols are borrowed directly
from pagan Greece and Rome.

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
with orb and scepter.

The
orb and scepter were the symbols of Zeus
and Jupiter as the supreme false gods of the Greek and
Roman pantheons.

The
orb represents universal dominion.

The
goddess Nike was called Victoria at Rome.

The
cross, representing the Papal Roman Empire, was
substituted for Victoria or Victory by Emperor
Constantine.

Zeus/Jupiter with orb, Nike/Victoria, and scepter.

The
visual symbolism of holding the world in one's hand was a clear message
used since antiquity. Citizens of Rome were familiar with the plain
round globe as a representation of the world or universe, ruled by
Jupiter, and thus the Emperor's dominion and absolute dictatorial
rule over the pagan Roman Empire....Obviously, the Roman eagle
has been replaced by the British lion so they can use the
United States as their cat's-paw or lap-dog!!

The
Holy Bible strictly prohibits women from ruling over men. When Israel
departed from JEHOVAH, women ruled over them:

As
for my people, children are their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isaiah
3:12).

Saint Paul had
women deacons but he foresaw the great apostasy and he warned against
women ruling over men:

But I do not
permit a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but
to be in silence. (I Timothy 2:12).

In
Revelation chapters 17 & 18, Babylon the Great is depicted as
a woman riding the beast. The rule of women over men always turns
out to be a disaster because women are more easily manipulated
by unscrupulous men.

Downing
Street is named after a notorious spy!!

One
of the most famous addresses in the world is 10 Downing Street—the
residence of the British Prime Minister. The street is named after
a man who spied on the British Christians as they sought to plant
the last days Israel in the New World.

Sir George Downing
(1623 - 1684).

Anglo-Irish
Sir George Downing was a notorious spy who spied on John
Winthrop as he sought to plant the New Israel in the
New World Wilderness.

Downing
later spied for Oliver
Cromwell and then he spied against the Dutch.

After
the Restoration of Charles II, this Judas had some of
his old "friends" arrested and returned to London
for torture and beheading.

10 Downing
Street is
named after a spy.

Since
the very residence of the Prime Minister of Gog and Magog is named
after a spy, it should not surprise US that their spies are EVERYWHERE!!

The
Bank of England is the heart of the City of London

The
Druid/Jesuit founded Bank of England is the heart of the City of London.
Since it was given a royal charter in 1694, it has totally dominated
the British government, because the golden rule says that "whoever
has the gold; makes the rules."

The
Bank of England was granted a royal charter by King William III in
1694. This bank took financial control of the nation out of the hands
of the sovereign and parliament . . . and placed it in the hands of
Jesuit bankers.

Its
founder was a Scotsman named William Paterson. Paterson was involved
in various financial scams before he founded the Bank of England.

Bank of England.

Goldfinger
Sir Mervyn King is governor of the Bank of England.

All
the stolen gold from South Africa and Fort Knox is now
stored in the Bank of England.

Since
1694, the bank has bypassed the ruling monarch and Parliament
by creating its own money to finance wars of conquest
around the globe.

Goldfinger
Sir Mervyn King
(b. 1948).

The
Bank of England is a USURY bank and issues "paper money."Prior to 1694,
usury was considered a crime punishable with a jail sentence.

The
U.S. "Federal" Reserve is almost an exact copy of this
usury paper money scam.

This
bank is called a central bank and has a complete monopoly on the printing
of paper money....It also sets interest (usury) rates for the nation.
Many central banks around the world are modeled on this bank, especially
the "Federal" Reserve Bank in the United States.

The
Bank of England was responsible for financing all the wars that Great
Britain fought after 1694....Many of these wars were fought against
the Dutch and French for the benefit of the Spanish Inquisition.

Gog and Magog on her majesty's secret service!!

Prior to 1900, spying was considered a despicible
profession. Spying came out of the closet in 1908 with the founding
of MI5 and MI6. When one nation
spies on another, the other nation takes countermeasures, leading
to an endless circle of espionage and counter-espionage. Originally,
MI5 and MI6 were housed in the same building, but they eventually
became separate spying bureaus.

MI5 hdqrs. at Thames House,
Westminster, London.

Domestic
and international spying have separate headquarters
in London, but they are all financed by the Bank of
England, and answer to the queen!!

The
CIA and FBI are their CLONES in the United States.

Spies
are glamorized by Ian Fleming's James Bond books and
movies but the Holy Bible calls them despicable.

Nothing
covert about MI6 spy
headquarters in London.

People
would be astonished and shocked if they knew that many of their great
heroes in the political, financial, military, "scientific,"
and musical worlds were nothing more than British secret
service agents!!

Only
the Judgment Day will reveal the number of people who spied for .
. . and are still spying for those 2 agencies.

Emperor
Constantine was a British giant!

Emperor
Constantine was a British giant who conquered the entire Roman Empire,
beginning from his native land.

Statue
of Constantine in York, England.

Constantine
was a British GIANT or COLOSSUS who conquered the entire
Roman Empire with the help of his Romano-British soldiers.

He
was the founder of the Latin Church and the city of Constantinople.

Colossal head of Constantine in Rome.

Constatine's
father, Constantius, was the husband of Helena, only daughter of King
Coel. When King Coel died, Constantinus became the lawful king of
Britannia as well as Caesar. Constantine inherited the title of king
from his father, and thus he was Roman Emperor . . . and king of Britannia.

King Henry V
had Sir John Oldcastle burned alive for treason!!

Gog
and Magog were first introduced into England during the reign of King
Henry V. King Henry was completely under the control of the Latin
Druid hierarchy, and often tried to get Christians to recant and return
to Rome in order to save themselves from a fiery death.

English
Christians were derisively called "Lollards" by the members
of the Latin Church, and there were thousands of these peaceful patriotic
Catholic Christians found throughout England and Wales.

King
Henry had a close friend and gallant knight named Sir John Oldcastle.
Sir John's "crime" was distributing the Scriptures in the
English language, and exposing the corrupt lives of the Druid monks,
who owned over 1/3 of the land in the kingdom

King Henry V (1386-1422).
Reigned from 1413 to 1422.

Since
the arrival of St. Paul in Britain, the battle between
true Christianity and Druidism has been intense.

Thanks
to the Druids, no record of this age long titanic conflict
between light and darkness exists.

Christian martyr Sir John Oldcastle
(1360 -1417).

During
the reign of King Henry V, Druid Canon Law supplanted English law.
Christians who differed from Rome, and accepted the Scriptures alone,
were accused of TREASON . . . and burned alive . . . or hanged, drawn,
and quartered. Such was the fate of faithful patriotic knight Sir
John Oldcastle.

Not
since pagan Roman Britain were patriotic Christians accused of TREASON
and martyred for not burning incense to Caesar....King Henry was sorry
he missed the burning of his "good friend" Sir John....He
was away in France at that time causing bloodshed and mayhem in that
country.

King Henry V attacking unarmed Christians
outside London.

In
1401, Henry IV enacted the first English law condemning
Christians to be burned alive.

Thousands
of English Christian were later condemned to the stake
by this diabolical law.

Cruel
burning of Sir John Oldcastle from Foxe's Book of Christian
Martyrs.

Beginning
with the reign of King Henry IV, Christians were accused of "heresy"
and burned alive. Sir John Oldcastle was suspended in chains and burned
alive.

The
Druid monks framed the Christians and accused them of plotting to
kill the king and overthrowing the government....They were condemned
under this new "heresy" law. This law has never been rescinded
and can be reenacted at any time. That is why Great Britain does not
have a WRITTEN Constitution like the United States.

Saint
John Wycliffe
(1328 -1384).

Gog
and Magog has a BURNINGHATREDfor true Christianity!!44
years after his death, the bones of Saint John Wycliffe—the
morning star of the Reformation—were dug up and
burned.

Fanatical
Papal clergy burning the bones
of Saint John Wycliffe.

In
1401, Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury—a bitter foe
of the Bible in English—had an infamous statute passed entitled
De Haeretico Comburendo(Concerning the Burning of Heretics).

In
1428, Saint John's bones were dug up and burned. His "crime"
was translating the Scriptures from the Latin Vulgate into English.
His ashes were thrown into the nearby river Swift, which flows into
the Avon:

The
Avon to the Severn runs,
The Severn to the sea,
And Wycliffe’s dust shall spread abroad,
Wide as the waters be.

The
Severn flows into the Bristol Channel which bore John
Cabot on his epic New World discovery voyage of 1494.

Wahhabi
Islam was established by the Bank of England!

Islam
and Druidism are remarkably similar false religions. One of the revered
symbols of the Druids is the crescent moon. The big difference is
that Muslims do not follow the pagan Druid practice of cremation.
An entire chapter in the Holy Bible is devoted to the burial
of Sarah—beloved wife of Abraham (Genesis
Chapter 23).

The
British government and Bank of England was present at every stage
in the creation of modern day Wahhabi Islam.

The
original founder of the Saudi dynasty was a Bedouin Emir named Muhammad
ibn Saud (circa 1748 -1765).

Here
in Dariya, Al-Wahhab won the support of the local chief, Muhammad
ibn Saud, leader of a sub-branch of the powerful Aneiza tribe and
already admired for his abilities as a warrior.
Muhammad ibn Saud became not only a convert to Wahhabism but, by
marrying his eldest son Abd Al-Aziz ibn Saud to Al-Wahhab's daughter,
became the founding father of the Saudi-Wahhabi dynasty—the
future rulers of Saudi Arabia. (Allen, God's Terrorists, The
Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad, p. 52).

This
marriage alliance of Emir Abdul Aziz ibn Saud with Imam Abdul Wahhab
created an alliance between political and religious Wahhabi Islam
. . . and remains the basis of the Saudi dynasty to this very day.

Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (1876-1953).
Caliph from 1932 to 1953.

Emir
Abdul Aziz ibn Saud was the founder of SAUDI Arabia.

His
great-grandmother was the daughter of Imam Abdul Wahhab—a
Jesuit in disguise—who took the Koran literally
and advocated killing all the "Bad" Muslims.

Harry St. John Bridger Philby.
(1885 -1960).

In
1979, Iran—ancient Persia—was taken over by the "Good"
Muslims who follow the Koran and advocate killing all the "Bad"
Muslims.

Williamson—an
employee of the Ango-Iranian Oil Company, had at least 4 wives and
4 surviving sons.

One
of the sons of Haji Williamson was Ruhollah Khomeini. The British
Druid sponsored Islamic Revolution began in that country in 1979,
which was the year 1400 in the Islamic calendar.

The
British invasion of the U.S. in 1812

The
war of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States was financed
by the Bank of England and the Jesuits. The Jesuits were determined
to enforce the Bull of Pope Alexander VI and stop the new nation from
expanding westward.

The
invasion of the eastern seaboard of the U.S. was a feint to
hide their real destination: New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory.

By
December 12, 1814, a huge British armada, under the command
of Sir Alexander Cochrane, with more than 10,000 soldiers
and sailors aboard had anchored in the Gulf of Mexico
east of Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne. This huge
armada's mission was to seize the Louisiana Territory
and hand it back to the Spanish Inquisition!!

The Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.

Here is a quote
from Jackson historian Augustus C. Buell:

The
British plan of subjugation was complete. Soon after the battle it
was learned that General Pakenham had a proclamation written, signed
and ready to be promulgated the moment his army should enter the city.
This proclamation denied the right of Napoleon to sell Louisiana,
denounced the pretensions of the United States to its sovereignty,
declared that Spain, the rightful possessor, was incapable of maintaining
her territorial rights and, finally, asserted a provisional occupation
by the British forces as a virtual protectorate on behalf of the Spanish
Crown. The night after the battle this proclamation was burned. It
may have been used to illuminate the scene where the corpse of its
author was being prepared for shipment back to England in a cask of
rum. (Buell, History of Andrew Jackson, Vol, II, pp. 80-81).

General
Jackson sent the British lion back to Druidland with his tail between
his legs. The Bank of England had to wait until the Civil War for
another opportunity to break up the Union.

President
Jackson closed the corrupt Bank of the United States and gave all
its money to the states....The closure of the bank and the redistribution
of itsmoney allowed the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

The
U.S. was central bank free until the "Federal" Reserve Bank
was chartered in 1913.

The
U.S. Civil War was Bank of England instigated!!

By
1860, the U.S. stretched from Canada to Mexico and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. Obviously, the Jesuits were horrified at this
loss of the best part of the New World to what they considered "heretics."

They
had a plan however, and that was to divide and conquer the entire
nation, with eventual annexation to Mexico.... Prince Albert, beloved
husband of Queen Victoria, foiled their plans . . . and it cost him
his life.

Prince
Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband and consort of Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was
a MAN OF PEACE and never favored British participation in the disastrous
Crimean War.

Prince
Albert—beloved husband of Queen Victoria—changed
a belligerent letter from the British government to President
Lincoln.

That
act of human kindness cost him his life, and made Queen
Victoria a grieving widow for the remainder of her long
life.

Queen Victoria (1819 -1901).

The
common people in England were anti-slavery and supported President
Lincoln....However, when the drums of war began to beat, there
was no shortage of volunteers to fight the hated "Yankees."

New
Khazaria was financed by the Bank of England

The
Bank of England was completely behind the establishment of New
Khazaria.

It
was general Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917 that opened the
door for the Khazars to occupy Palestine.

In
ancient history, Gog and Magog was always associated with the Caucasus
and the Khazars.

The
prophetic system called FUTURISM is just as deadly as the false Druidic
religion of evolution....Futurism teaches that the Antichrist will
not be revealed until 7 years before the end of time and that he will
sit in a rebuilt "Jewish" temple in Jerusalem.

Obviously
you needs "Jews" to fulfill that "prophecy" and
that is why the Bank of England was behind Zionism and the two world
wars that led to the establishment of New Khazaria.

Futurism
was the brainchild of a Spanish Jesuit priest named Francisco
Ribera....Using Scripture and history, all the Reformers clearly
identified the Papal dynasty or the Latin kingdom as the Antichrist....Ribera's
Futurism sought to deflect their clear teaching on the present
Antichrist to some nebulous individual way off in the distant future.

Edward Irving
(1792 -1834).

These
2 Druid apostles of Jesuit futurism popularized the fallacy
of a future Antichrist, a secret rapture, a rebuilt Jewish
temple in Jerusalem, a future 1000 years reign of Christ
on the earth etc., etc.

John Nelson Darby
(1800 -1882).

Darby
made several trips to the United States where Futurism spread like
wildfire.

Zionism
was the logical outcome of these self fulfilling "prophecies,"
and the Bank of England financed General Allenby in his campaign to
wrest control of the Holy Land from the Turks and establish a fake
State of Ysrael in its stead.

The
MI6 British invasion of 1964

The
most recent British invasion of the U.S. took place in February 1964....Instead
of swords and muskets they carried . . . GUITARS!!

Of
course, we are referring to the rock music invasion....Rock music
was popularized in the U.S. by Elvis Presley, but Presley was not
instrumental in the far reaching social and moral revolution that
followed the British rock music invasion of 1964. The Druids were
noted as bards or "musicians" and their hypnotizing drumbeats
accompanied their diabolical human sacrifices.

Beatles
arriving in New York on February 7, 1964.

The
MI6 Beatles broke down the door, and a flood of morally
degenerate rock stars (led by the Rolling Stones),
invaded the U.S.

The
Fab Four are: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Degenerate
MI6 Rolling Stones.

The
vast majority of rock stars died by suicide or drug overdoses....Very
few of them are singing in the angelic choirs right now.